Word Finder - poorer

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With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.

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We were so poor that we couldn't afford shoes.

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Of low quality.

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That was a poor performance.

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Used to express pity.

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Oh you poor little thing.

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Deficient in a specified way.

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Cow's milk is poor in iron.

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Inadequate, insufficient.

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I received a poor reward for all my hard work.

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Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.

The city they entered was dirty and rank, the people poorer than any he'd ever seen.

Indeed, the more you have of such things the poorer you are.

The poorer communes are aided by a state subvention.

Despite Count Bezukhov's enormous wealth, since he had come into an income which was said to amount to five hundred thousand rubles a year, Pierre felt himself far poorer than when his father had made him an allowance of ten thousand rubles.

The poorer grazing lands on the upper levels of the Alps, Pyrenees, Jura and Vosges, the Landes, the more outlying regions of the central plateau, southern Brittany, Sologne, Berry, ChampagnePouilleuse, the Crau and the Carnargue, these districts being given over for the most part to sheep-raising.

Akhmim has several mosques and two Coptic churches, maintains a weekly market, and manufactures cotton goods, notably the blue shirts and check shawls with silk fringes worn by the poorer classes of Egypt.

He immediately brought forward a scheme for improving the condi - tion of the poorer clergy by equalizing the incomes of the bishops, the reception of which at the time may be imagined, though it was substantially the same as that carried into effect by Lord Melbourne's government fifty years later.

To encourage the poorer classes of the people to become landholders, it was decided that the lots offered for sale should be small, and that the purchaser should be allowed to pay by five or ten yearly instalments.

The public worship endowment fund has relieved the state exchequer of the cost of public worship; has gradually furnished to the poorer parish priests an addition to their stipends, raising them to 32 per annum, with the prospect of further raising them to 40; and has contributed to the outlay incurred by the communes for religious purposes.

Insect life is perhaps poorer and less varied than in Brazil, but in the 14 orders of insects there are no less than 98 families, each including many genera and species.

He also bought up various blocks of slum dwellings and converted them into model tenements, with the object of improving the conditions of the poorer classes of Dublin.

Having won popularity by donations to poorer citizens, he took advantage of a festival of Hera, which was being celebrated outside the walls, to make himself master of the city (about 535 B.C.).

The nuts of other species of Areca are used by the poorer classes in the East as substitutes for the genuine betel nut.

The poorer classes, above all the fishermen and small farmers, are physically much finer than the wellto-do, who are prone to excessive stoutness owing to their more sedentary habits.

This latter is chiefly used by the poorer classes.

Shepherd's Bush in the east is a populous and poorer quarter.

These by laws are in practice limited to those inhabited by the poorer classes, although the act imposes no such restriction.

The "Palais Royal," with its parterre and fountains, and the spacious public park are fine pleasure-grounds, whilst in the ravines that lead down to the sea cluster the houses of the poorer classes.

To these must be added the fattening of geese for Strassburg's celebrated pâtés de foie gras, which forms a useful source of income to the poorer classes.

And when the farmer has got his house, he may not be the richer but the poorer for it, and it be the house that has got him.

It was found also that many of the poorer rectors and parish priests, and a great many chaplains and curates, were in secret association with the Lollards, so much so that in many places processions were never made and worship on saints' days was abandoned.

These foot archers almost certainly represented the poorer elements of the various levies of Hungary.

Does becoming poorer necessarily have to go hand-in-hand with becoming barbarians?

Finally the poorer clergy, neglected by their bishops, and excluded from all preferment, took part with the szlachta against their own spiritual rulers and eagerly devoured and imparted to their flocks, in their own language, the contents of the religious tracts which reached them by divers ways from Goldberg and Konigsberg.

As these richest ores are exhausted, poorer and poorer ones will be used, and the cost of iron will increase progressively if measured either in units of the actual energy used in mining and smelting it, or in its power of purchasing animal and vegetable products, cotton, wool, corn, &c., the supply of which is renewable and indeed capable of very great increase, but probably not if measured in its power of purchasing the various mineral products, e.g.

Some of the poorer sorts of furs, such as hamster, marmot, Chinese goats and lambs, Tatar ponies, weasels, kaluga, various monkeys, antelopes, foxes, otters, jackals and others from the warmer zones, which until recently were neglected on account of their inferior quality of colour, by the better class of the trade, are now being deftly dressed or dyed in Europe and America, and good effects are produced, although the lack of quality when compared with the better furs from colder climates which possess full top hair, close underwool and supple leathers, is readily manifest.

All the waters of India - the sea, the rivers and the tanks - swarm with a great variety of fishes, which are caught in every conceivable way, and furnish a considerable proportion of the food of the poorer classes.

The church was served in a nobler manner in 1704 by the abandonment of first-fruits and tenths by the queen for the purpose of raising the pittances of the poorer Union clergy (see QUEEN ANNES BouNTY).

But I have not killed anyone or taken anything that was not mine, but have only helped my poorer brothers.

He came out poorer than he went in, but satisfied with the outcome.

The FP (Virtue Party) despite making a poorer than expected showing in the polls, does have a female deputy.

This leads to price-fixing, with politicians siphoning off profits and leaving farmers and miners all the poorer.

Moab was evidently as poor as Judah and poorer than Israel, for few relics have been found there, beside the famous stele.

The hardware of the digital superhighway -- optical fiber -- is n't due to arrive in many poorer parts of the country for years.

Thoroughgoing policy changes by Government in every area of public policy have affected community life and often disproportionately the poorer people across our country.

This is typified by the growth in the number of American-style gated communities, where the better-off are comfortably isolated from their poorer neighbors.

Youngsters from poorer backgrounds (boys, especially) can buckle to peer group pressure and develop negative attitudes to learning early on.

Poorer people could buy the plain yellow tulips that are still familiar to many gardeners, while rich people could buy flowers such as the Semper Augustus, which sported red flames and was sold for exorbitant prices.

However, modeling school graduates are rarely seen by the industry pros that matter, and most find themselves in the same place they started, only thousands of dollars poorer.

This will help you take high-resolution photos instead poorer quality low resolution ones.

Buying girls' wholesale party dresses was the goal of many poorer people in cities who needed to get a good dress for their daughters that would work as well for First Communion, Easter or other religious or secular dressy occasions.

This was an advantage because it meant that a poorer neighborhood had a selection of shops that suited smaller budgets.

It can also give poorer students more time to prove themselves so that they may get into better schools or be offered larger scholarships.

Poorer quality paints will require two or more coats to get the same job done, quickly racking up both time and money.

The poorer wore cheaper grades of wool which were coarse and rough.

This is a great way to get more organic food into the hands of poorer people when there is a local market nearby.

The best brain age you can achieve is 20, with higher ages signifying poorer performance.

And if they had to commit to the trailer, gamers might end up getting poorer games because last-minute improvements would be impossible.

From characters to storylines, what you do in your faction affects if your city becomes wealthier and industrious or poorer and less popular.

There are no hard and fast rules, but some people have found that Samsung phones can sometimes have poorer connectivity than phones that come from Nokia and Motorola.